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If you’re like me, you read that headline and immediately thought of What About Bob?, an almost perfect “comedy of the uncomfortable” that starred Bill Murray and a never funnier Richard Dreyfuss. Unfortunately, the new film is not a sequel, but it still sounds promising. The gorgeous and funny Elizabeth Banks will star in and produce What About Barb, a romantic comedy about a socialite who is forced to let her uncouth cousin be her maid of honor in order to have her rich uncle pay for her wedding. The movie will be written by Mark Perez who also wrote the immediately forgettable college comedy Accepted, with Justin Long and Lewis Black.
Banks is busy these days, you’ll see her next in Spider-Man 3, she’s got a lead role in Fred Claus with Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti, and she was recently added to […]
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